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To
the'Ch.riian
Reacia.
fulfered,
but
becaufe
they
lead
up
and
iffue
into
.perfet
bic
ffednefs
at
laft.
Reader,
the times
are
perillous,
a
fentenee
of
death
is
over
aloft, if
not
all
thy
cotrfòrts,
how foon thou
mayefït
be
ftript
of
thy
feein-
ing
happinefs,thou
knoweft not,
if
thou
haft
not
a
part
in
thefe Chrif}ian Beatitudes,
thou
art
a
tutferable man,
thy
life
is
a.dreame,
and
thy death
will be dreadfisll. }Jere
is
pro-
pounded unto
thee
not
that the world
calls
Bleffednefs,
or what
thou thinkeft
fo,
but
what
the
bleffed
Sonne
of
the
bleffed
God
hath pronounced fo,and
will
be ibund
in
lice
and death
to
be fo
;
reckon
and
make
that
therefore
thy
blefiédnefs
which the
Lord
Chrift
himfelfe accounts and
calls
blefiede
nefs,
and
then let
Times
,
Troubles
,
and
.Changes
be
what they
will
,
thou
art
ablef-
fcd
man, (halt
fo
abide,
and have
a
bleffed
end.
The
Reverend Author
of
thefe
Ser-
mons
Mr.
Jeremiah
Burroughs
did
fo,
be-
ing the
fubjed
he
preach'd
on
before
his
death.
There
Sermons
of
his
have
layen
thirteen
years
compleat
this
very
day in the
darke
(.for
he
dyed the
t
l
th
day
of
-the
9th
month
alaE.)